This post brings back such odoriferous memories Meredith - we always carried along extra clothing, and an extra car seat cover when the children were little. We still carry extra clothing and a clean up bag just in case. I think we only threw out one outfit just because it couldn't possibly be saved - but I pitied the garbage collector and triple wrapped the whole hot mess in grocery bags. We never again allowed excessive cherry consumption before a long trip - as you say, lesson learned!

I am so glad you are feeling better! Our suspicions are usually right when it comes to our own bodies, but I hope for your sake it isn't so - simply because of the long term issues involved.

Gestational diabetes isn't great fun, but it is very controllable - and isn't it a blessing that you know all about the diabetic diet because of your husband? You won't have to visit the nutritionist and pay to learn what you already know!

I had GD with Brenna and you're right diet will make an enormous difference in how you feel. I was lucky enough to be able to keep it very well controlled through diet, but I still wound up with a nine pound baby! How big might she have been!?!I thought I was being so wasteful the first time I threw away clothes because of one of *those* kinds of incindents, but my word! What else can you do!

I always have random trash bags hanging off the cabinet doors, usually with dirty diapers or papers. My husband will just take them out with the trash. Well, this one particular bag had a soiled outfit and monogrammed blanket that was a gift for when Fisher blew out his diaper. Guess where it is now? Oops...EliseSure miss that beautiful blanket.

I used to carry extra clothes and one of my proudest mommy moments was seeing a little boy wet his pants at the Science Center and the look on his mama's face as she held her newborn baby in her arms. You could see it had taken every ounce of energy to go on an outing and she didn't have any extras with her.

I walked up and handed her a diaper, and a set of (thrift store/very cheap) little boys' clothes.

Hubs and I backpacked to an overnight campsite with our six month old daughter. We were prepared to carry all trash back out we us including diapers, however, she surprised us with such a package that I ended up burying the diaper, plastic pants and the sleeper because I could not bear to carry back down. The entire time I was digging the hole I was praying to God to forgive me for this transgression. I'm sure that if we were to go back up there now, 30 years later, that that pair of plastic pants are still there. Ugh.Rita

This exact thing happened to me and DD in a department store. I had to ask a lady in the bathroom to go buy me a pair of toddler pants, because it was January and I had no change of clothes for her (dumb!). The lady wouldn't even take any money for the pants.

I had to throw an entire car seat in the Chic-Fil-A dumpster about 3 months ago. 16 month old threw up, it was a river of puke...and we were on the way to church-45 minutes from home. Aaaaccccckkkk!!I got the biggest laugh out of the folks in the drive-thru...wonder what they were thinking when they saw me hoist that seat over my head and chuck it in??!!LOL!Anyway, all that to say, you gotta know when to walk away. And the clothes he was wearing-all in a plastic bag, tied shut and placed in the trash can.Dawn in SC

Glad to hear you are feeling better. Even if you are too borderline for test results to show GD, sounds like a good idea to keep eating what makes you feel good. My test results were always normal but I felt so much better in preg when I kept away from refined flour & sugar and ate lots of protein & fruits & veggies--especially watermelon, it's a natural dieuretic (sic).

On our way back home from a recent camping trip, we stopped for Oreo McFlurries. My Clara was, evidently, a bit queasy from the ride...but that didn't stop her from chowing on that McFlurry! Back up it came...oreo chunks still in tact and all. And you wanna hear the grossest part? It was STILL COLD. We made a "deposit" in the nearest gas station's garbage can too;)

How is that an even trade? The person who has to empty the trash, which has a poopy diaper and clothes, is just a person making near to maybe slightly more minimum wage, and pays the same price in gas you do...

And all the people who pump their gas after you, who're also paying as much as you, now have to pump their gas with the odor of your child's soiled clothes and diaper in the air... Which on a hot summer day isn't pleasant.

I've got 4 kids, ages 5 to 3 months, and we've had our fair share of accidents, but I've never dumped their poopy, soiled, diapers or clothes in an outdoor, open air, highly traveled/used, and public trash can. It's inappropriate, and not to mention, not a trash can designed to be loaded with human waste. I think it's right up there with visiting friends/relatives with children in diapers, and throwing away soiled diapers in the kitchen trash. It's unhygienic and not very considerate of the noses of those who come behind you.

The soiled clothes were an emergency. There is NO WAY I could have driven home 10 miles on the interstate, pregnant, with that smell in the car. This was the station wagon, so it had no trunk.

I scrounged a plastic bag, wrapped everything tightly, sealed it as best I could, and then put it in the bottom of the outdoor trash can.

It was the best I could do.

If the gas station did not want people to put trash in those cans, they would not put them there. I am paying the gas station for gas and the trash can is part of the service it offers in return.

I doubt very much that either an attendant or another customer could smell it at the bottom of the can.

I did not do it to "get back" at the gas station for gas prices. What I meant by even trade was that I would have been willing to pay almost anything to have that smell out of my car--even the cost of the gas.